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takeover target Genex Power has successfully refinanced its portfolio of two operating solar projects.

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Nuclear energy proponents are trying to discredit renewable energy and promote nuclear and fossil gas, and their myths they are receiving little or no challenge in the mainstream media.

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Labor says the world is changing, and its $22 billion Future Made in Australia deal is essential to protect its future in a low carbon world.

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The energy transition is changing the face of historic coal mining and farming regions and community leaders are calling for better consultation on renewables.

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Rio Tinto has finished an off-grid solar farm in Canada and signed off on two in the NT, as it looks to support end-of-mine-life energy needs.

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NSW seeks to fast track transmission lines and pumped hydro projects proposed for coal sites targeted by the Coalition for large scale nuclear.

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W.A. may seek longer duration battery storage as it manages unexpectedly strong growth in rooftop solar, and the impending closure of its coal generators.

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The last coal-fired power station in the UK is entering its final days and has received its last load of coal ahead of its planned closure on September 30.

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Origin Energy branches into "fast-growing" industrial decarbonisation segment with stake in New South Wales based start-up.

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Solar is on track to become the biggest source of electricity on the planet by the mid-2030s. The Economist says to bet against that is to bet against capitalism.

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Electricity industry association Eurelectric has released figures showing that 50 per cent of public electricity generation in the EU came from renewables for the first time in the first half of 2024. The association said Europe was decarbonising at an unprecedented pace, with 74 per cent of power coming from “renewable and low-carbon energy sources,” which includes […]

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French nuclear giant has scrapped its plans for small modular reactors, and decided to start over after customers raised concerns about costs.

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Organisations like Rewiring Australia have been calling initiatives like this – the local level needs the same focus, planning, and funding as large-scale renewable energy zones.

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Details released for the first federal big battery tender in Western Australia, now at the centre of the country's battery storage boom.

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Coalition’s pledge to build seven nuclear reactors poses serious questions about whether Australia can meet its international climate obligations.

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Another gigawatt scale wind project, and a very big battery, proposed along the route of the controversial VNI West transmissions upgrade.

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Stanwell partners with Redflow to trial large-scale zinc bromine flow technology and lay foundations for a battery manufacturing plant in Queensland.

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Just two months after the Italian government banned solar on agricultural soil, Pope Francis has ordered construction of a PV plant on Vatican-owned farmland.

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ClearSky Solar is a community initiative that helps businesses divest from fossil fuels by linking community investors to local solar projects that need financing.

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Self-healing solar cells could solve some major hurdles for perovskite technology, in what a multinational research team is calling a "breakthrough" for the next generation PV technology.

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